ReactOS Code Audit

reub2000 writes to tell us that in response to talk of "tainted" code within ReactOS Steven Edwards, ReactOS and Wine developer, has called for a complete audit of the entire source tree in addition to procedure and policy changes. From the article: "One final note, this audit of the code is going to take a long time. It could take years, but it will happen, this project will come out better than it was before. I don't believe anything anyone has done while working on this project was really wrong. Every decision has three possibilities, being moral, ethical and or legal. Sometimes the law in itself is unethical and immoral. If people made mistakes and there was a violation of the law, I question the justice of the law and or anyone that would try to prosecute any of the developers who just want the freedom to learn and create a more free system."

Re:Yeah...

[andersbergh]

I think you can run Linux in QEMU under ReactOS, if that counts.

my take

[loserhead]

from my perspective, this can only be good for reactOS. if they use the US method for reverse-engineering, they can still understand the concepts and apply them in original code.

step 1. audit code
step 2. redo any code that is in dispute
step 3. package and sell your product
step 4. PROFIT!!

What happens when you have a split personality?

[jd]

Or those with Zaphod Beeblebrox' problem [nationalgeographic.com]? Are they one or two engineers, under US law?

Re:No way would MSFT participate

[Reverend528]

Good thing microsoft is a small company and couldn't possibly afford to hire some sort of third-party consultant to read the reactos source code and compare it to the windows source code.

Re:Article

[uucp2]

Hey! Don't try to trick him to RTFA!

Re:Yeah...

[Richard Dick Head]

Try it, post a screen shot, it'd probably work. Someone's already tried ReactOS under QEMU under ReactOS [reactos.org]

Re:ReactOS is recommended

[nacturation]

I hated it, although I've only tried it on MS Virtual Machine. First, it srashed right at boot. Then, after reinstalling, it actually booted, but the graphics were messed up, and it BSOD'd a whole lot.

So what you're saying is that it's working quite a lot like Windows already?